GRE Word List
CONSANGUINITY
the quality or state of being consanguineous
The meaning of the word consanguinity is the quality or state of being consanguineous.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cadence | the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity |
| beget | to procreate as the father : sire |
| torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |
| diligence | steady, earnest, and energetic effort : devoted and painstaking work and application to accomplish an undertaking : assiduity |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| vibrant | pulsating with life, vigor, or activity |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |